Arts & Entertainment

By Lizz Vensas
Staff Writer
This is going to be a hit movie.  Regardless of my review, this will be a box office success and you can thank one major age group… tweens.  That golden age before puberty, but after you start to discovered that … Read-more

By Austin Metz
Editor in Chief

It started with such potential, such promise. A beautiful opening introduction that transitioned into the song “Some Nights.”

It had everything you would expect from a Fun. album. That voice. That guitar. That auto-tune. Wait, what?

Everybody stop what … Read-more

By Dana Finkler
Staff Writer
FOX’s new hit show “Alcatraz” concluded its first season on Monday, answering many questions, but left viewers begging for more.

In the opening sequence to the show, FBI Agent Emerson Hauser, played by Sam Neil (also known for Jurassic Park) … Read-more

By Olivia Tatreau
Staff Writer

Throughout the years the dark, heights, germs, small spaces have created phobias.  There are even unusual fears such as Anatidaephobia, which is the fear that somewhere a duck is watching you. But one of the more wide spread fears is … Read-more

By Matthew Waldrep
A&E Editor

Sometimes it’s hard to remember just how dependant people have become on technology to stay in touch with one another.  This March the GRCC Players are presenting the quirky and hilarious comedy, “For Better” by Eric Coble, and taking on … Read-more

By Matthew Waldrep
A&E Editor

The GRCC Fashion Show Production class has collaborated with the Salvation Army to present the fashion runway show, “All Dolled Up.”

“‘All dolled up’ is based on the traditional Barbie doll and our thought process when it comes to a … Read-more

By Lizz Vensas
Staff Writer

The Grand Rapids Symphony completed the long journey to drop “The Ring” into the fires Mount Doom this month. The showing of “The Return of The King” marked the end of its three year run of providing a live score … Read-more

By “Cryptic” Josh Villaire
Staff Writer

This 1970 release was dedicated to John Lennon, “For John with Love from Yoko,” and continues to fulfill predictable prophecies with a hippy-dippy cover of the lovebirds lounging under spacious, Japanese tree branches. One begins to assume logically that … Read-more

By Matthew Waldrep
A&E Editor

Odd-ball indie pop band, Of Montreal, released their 11th studio album, “Paralytic Stalks,” in early February.

For a band that’s created it’s own mythos over the span of almost a dozen albums throughout the late 90s and 2000s, “Paralytic Stalks” … Read-more

By Austin Metz
Editor in Chief

Sometimes more is not best. Why travel with a five-piece band when you can make the same sound with just two people?

That is the logic that has helped make The Civil Wars two-time Grammy winners.

Their first album, … Read-more